Monday, March 16, 2015

How Does This Happen?

A southwest suburban man used more than 3,000 LINK cards to steal almost $1 million in government funds, purchasing "massive amounts of energy drinks and candy" and selling them to West Side stores, officials said.

Wael S. Ghosheh, 46, has been charged with theft of government property, identity theft, money laundering, unauthorized use of food stamp benefits and wire fraud, all of which are felonies, records show.

Ghosheh, of the 5500 block of West 84th Street in southwest suburban Burbank, is in Cook County Jail after appearances Wednesday and Thursday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, during which bail was set at $50,000, records show.

The level of fraud here is astronomical. And from what we observe, hear and can deduce, barely scratches the surface of some of the crap that goes on when there is no accountability in the system, no oversight by the authorities and the watchdogs are busy licking their balls and the balls of those in power.

I arrested a prostitute on the west side a few summer's ago. She said there's an Arab guy who drive's an ice cream truck and pays $20 cash for every $45 on someone's link card. Takes the link card and goes to cost co and stocks up so he sell ice cream and crap to the west side mutts. But putting a picture and thumb print on the link card is racist according to some.

But yet it's "racially motivated" or "degrading" or "perpetuates class warfare" when it's suggested that the recipient's photo appears on the card.

I recently overheard one liberal asshole where I work claiming the LINK card color was changed because the purple it had once been had become associated with blacks and an accompanying "stigma of being poor". No doubt it took a committee years of research costing millions of taxpayer dollars to arrive at this conclusion.

But I guess if you don't need a photo I.D. to vote in presidential and mayoral elections, why would you need a photo on your LINK card when you're only gonna sell it to the 'Ayy-Rabs' for dope money?

One of the biggest problems with the liberal government giveaway programs (other than they shouldn't exist) is that they do little or nothing to police them.

This was obvious with the free Obama phones that were intended to keep people connected in Emergencies. With little or no safeguards built in, ghetto dwellers were literally able to walk into their local cell phone corner store and walk out with a new Obama phone package, and walk down the street to another cell phone store and duplicate the process for a second phone and so on.

YouTube is full of videos (no doubt recorded on free Obama phones!) describing how simple the process is, with actual ghetto trash showing off their multiple, new phones.

If the government would only hire some investigators for these damn programs, they'd be able to stop a lot of the waste and fraud that occurs. Of course, then their friends and family members might also get caught, so, well... Never mind!

I have seen this going on at SAM's club during their early morning business hours at the Evergreen Park store a few years ago. Guys with whole flat bed carts of flaming hots were using a stack of LINK cards to pay..

Food stamps should be abolished and replaced with a 50 pound bag of flour, a bag of sugar, a carton of eggs and some dry milk off the back of a county truck. You need bread - bake some.

When I shop at Costco you will see sometimes a Middle Eastern person with a huge cart of items. Then at the check out, they will hand the Costco cashier like 20 link cards. No one says anything or questions anything. Costco benefits from selling their goods. The store owner benefits from buying the link cards at a hefty discount from the original link card holder. The original link card holder sells the link card so they can get high. The government really does not care because they want people to stay on the dole so they are dependent on the government. Everyone benefits except the responsible people.

But you are racist for bringing this up. That will be the answer. Investigate the Link program? Never going to happen. If they were to straighten this program out it would easily pay for the pension problem. With tons of money left over. But we can't do that because- well most people should know why.

Why do construction workers get LINK cards, is that part of the negotiations when bidding on a project? When they rebuilt the Red Line everybody got excited when Burger King began accepting LINK. Is this compensation, or do the union halls just find boxes of cards in the alley?

Now we KNOW why link benefits were cut down some months ago! This is SCUM (Paki-fled anyone---to avoid charges?) TIP: look into cash migration to demoncratic political war chests it's not all coming from hollywood folks! The govt programs aren't there just to help out deserving folk,it's for the creepy minions to divert to political purposes.(see daley crime family reports).

I've stated here multiple times as much as you want to get on LINK card users they are not the ones getting rich off this program, fraud included. They keep these programs going because of the people that get paid as a result i.e. corporate level farmers, major food retailers and as obvious the corner store man that flips LINK to real dollars. The govt lies about crime, lies about programs for the children but someone you guys bite that these welfare programs are for the users. They are not. You how many white libs in social services would be out of work, how many degree programs would drop enrollment, how many rich businessmen would drop profits if the govt stops giving people food stamps and WIC?

And he's hit with a bail he'll make with the cash in his pocket! Another Muslim being supported by the very system he's dedicated to destroy. American society has turned upside down, thanks to three generations of "progressive" movements in politics, education and finance.There is a huge upheaval coming within the next two years. I only hope there are enough young men and women brave enough, and smart enough, to put this train back on the tracks.As for all you weak, older losers who cannot think about anything other than your pensions - well, good luck. Life is about to give you a big wake-up call. Get ready.

What a nice distraction away from the trillion dollar bailouts of the parasitic bankers, politicians, and government cronies.

When lying is no longer enough to gain compliance, then the organs of security are unleashed on dissent and resistance."When it becomes serious, you have to lie." Jean-Claude Juncker simply gave voice to what the world's leaders practice on a daily basis, because now it's always serious.And why is it now serious? Persuading tax donkeys and debt serfs that everything is going their way is now impossible without lies. Persuading the populace that the leadership is working on their behalf was jettisoned in the wake of the 2008 bailout of bankers and parasites.

Stripped of the artifice that they care about anything other than preserving the wealth of their cronies, global political leaders now rely on propaganda: narratives designed to manage expectations and perceptions, bolstered by carefully tailored official statistics.

Reliance on lies erodes legitimacy. As the rich get richer and the burdens on tax donkeys and debt serfs increase, the gulf between the official happy-story narrative and reality widens to the breaking point, and faith in the narrative and the leadership espousing it declines.

When 20% of the populace no longer believe the lies and begins questioning the state's enforcement of the status quo, the government devotes its resources to punishing dissenters and resisters. Whistleblowers are charged with trumped-up crimes; those publicly refuting the...

HAHAHAHAHA best great way to put it its unreal the amount of FRAUD the bottom feeders create. I don't see any of the useless newspapers digging to get to the bottom of THIS FRAUDULENT SYSTEM......OH!!!! wait does not involved police related incidents so no news here. Wake up TAXPAYERS here is OUR money wasted by those who claim poverty and lack of jobs since they sell YOUR TAX MONEY for none other than cash,liquor,cigarettes and whatever they might need. PATHETIC

The authorities are too busy watching an elderly person of our acquaintance who is barely hanging on financially. Took over a year to get a change of address filed with Ill. LINK. Letters ignored, phones not answered. Finally I got online for them, took four or five repeat attempts over weeks, typing it right into the system, before it sunk in with the state.

Then much excitement. They demand proof of something (against their own written policy) by the 9th -- and they get it by certified mail/return receipt -- and then a letter arrives dated the 8th saying that benefits will be cut off because the person did not reply! No payments for months. Scratching along, maybe one meal a day.

Person fills out the correct form to file for the hearing they are entitled to by law. No hearing, no response at all -- except to cut the benefits from $189.00 to $135.00/month.

We hear that 1 out of 10 State Of Illinois employees make over $100,000 per year. This is the job performance you can expect in return.

...while scumbag Gosheh here must have had a bunch of liquor stores on a string, paying crackheads $5.00/card and then burning them up for profit. 3,000 cards, when a truly needy person can hardly hold on to one.

They should sweat this f__er until he gives up every corner store that must have been in on this -- and pull business licenses, prosecute like crazy, fill up the bus.

Rauner will have to buy his $6,000 bottles of wine somewhere else, the In And Out down the street just got boarded up...

"When I shop at Costco you will see sometimes a Middle Eastern person with a huge cart of items. Then at the check out, they will hand the Costco cashier like 20 link cards. No one says anything or questions anything."

3/16/2015 07:08:00 AM

I assume you called this in?

"For reporting fraud, please use the contact information below.

"Cash, SNAP, or Medical Assistance Fraud -- Potential fraud on the part of clients or retailers.

I have seen one store up on Clark Street shut down for playing this game and there should be a lot more. Time to drop the hammer and end the party, to save these programs for the people who really need them.

Don't make sick old people take three buses into a dangerous part of town for a whole day of waiting, forms, questions, lines, a photo, being elbowed by screaming, running chiluns.

Oops. "Camera broke. System be discommunicated. Aw yaw come back tomorrow." So there you go, maybe wheeling your little oxygen tank along behind...

Go after the deep pockets like Costco and the other retailers who facilitate this fraud. They are right there in plain sight every day, sitting ducks, and all of their sales transactions are neatly recorded on their computers. So subpoena.

Why in the hell are you allowed to buy anything besides basic groceries with a LINK card? Cereal, eggs, milk, formula, etc. You should NOT be allowed to buy candy, pop, chips or anything remotely close to junk food on MY tax money.

Never mind "da hood". You wanna see some real serious Link Card Fraud? Come to West Rogers Park.Take in the Indian and Pakistani markets up & down Devon. Or the Aldi in the 6200 block of California. You'll see several grocery carts, filled to rim with HUGE volumes of food. So much food that one can't help but surmise, this shit's heading to the buyer's south or west side corner store. I mean, seriously, who the fuck needs 20 bags of suger, or 20gallons of fuckin milk? Then, sure as shit, they pay for it with a LINK Card. Then load it up into their nice, late model van and drive away smiling. Shit gauls me to no end. Welcome to America, motherfuckers. Where you get FREE shit...on the American taxpayer's dime. Thanks liberals.

"Assistant Milwaukee County District Attorney David Feiss...says it doesn’t make sense to prosecute each person who might be selling their benefits.

"So he follows the money.

“If I have a store that’s defrauding the program out of $30, $40, $50,000 in a year, I think I can have more impact on fraud against the program by going after that store owner than I can going after a hundred recipients,” he says.

"...the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office is working with DHS to crack down on WIC fraud. Dozens of store owners have been prosecuted in the last few years for theft or providing cash for WIC checks. Now the District Attorney is pushing hard for deportation, too, because about half of the store owners who end up in trouble are not U.S. citizens, says Feiss."

"The Small Business Administration is the federal agency that helps "little guy" businesses get loans they couldn't get through traditional lenders. Or so the story goes.

"According to a 2014 federal oversight report from public research group American Transparency, taxpayer-backed SBA loans are popular with businesses serving "wealthy lifestyles."

"The report, which analyzed SBA loans between 2007 and 2013, found that billions of dollars flowed to businesses that, in many cases, could obtain standard loans with standard interest rates. SBA loans offer advantageous low rates.

"During that period, the SBA issued $67.23 billion in loans and guarantees to 34,677 entities.

"Many of the loans, which ranged from $1 million to $5 million, went to luxury goods retailers, exclusive clubs, Fortune 100 companies, plastic surgery clinics and even private equity firms.

Code of Silence said:This was obvious with the free Obama phones that were intended to keep people connected in Emergencies. With little or no safeguards built in, ghetto dwellers were literally able to walk into their local cell phone corner store and walk out with a new Obama phone package, and walk down the street to another cell phone store and duplicate the process for a second phone and so on.----------------------------------I cant stand freeloaders taking advantage of the system as much as most of you guys on here but I wish you would at least get your facts straight when you try to make a point. The free "Obama" phones program actually started and was signed into law by GEORGE W. BUSH not Obama. Conservatives are just as much to blame as liberals for keeping this crappy program as well as the other giveaways.

$50K bond ? Give the dog pork to eat or nothing while he waits for the store owners to gather his bond money selling, cold pops, chips, untaxed cigarettes, spoiled meat, and expired can goods in the ghetto's across the city.

Chump change. You want to hear about some waste? Watch the segment of 60 minutes from 3/15 on the G paying out billions of dollars in benefits to dead people. yea, billions. They interview one lady that has been collecting her mothers social security since 1984. She got caught and is looking at a year in the can. Her excuse? Just before her mother died, mom said that you have a right to keep collecting my benefits. So she did. 30 years worth. Billions of fucking dollars. And by the admission of the head of social security, they can't afford to investigate.

Anonymous Anonymous said...Chump change. You want to hear about some waste? Watch the segment of 60 minutes from 3/15 on the G paying out billions of dollars in benefits to dead people. yea, billions. They interview one lady that has been collecting her mothers social security since 1984. She got caught and is looking at a year in the can. Her excuse? Just before her mother died, mom said that you have a right to keep collecting my benefits. So she did. 30 years worth. Billions of fucking dollars. And by the admission of the head of social security, they can't afford to investigate.

We are fucked.

3/16/2015 04:44:00 PM

I'm bored. I'll do the job for expenses and lunch. ps: If any family member has died, make sure you run their ss# on the social security death database. It's printed there, publicly, shortly after the death.

If it ISN'T there, report it to social security and follow up on it, otherwise it's easy to use that ss# in an identity theft and other types of fraud, which could tie up the estate or property transfers in the future.

Anonymous Anonymous said...Why in the hell are you allowed to buy anything besides basic groceries with a LINK card? Cereal, eggs, milk, formula, etc. You should NOT be allowed to buy candy, pop, chips or anything remotely close to junk food on MY tax money.

3/16/2015 12:31:00 PM

Stay away from high-end bakeries, then, or you'll have a heart attack when you see $200-$500 special occasion cakes going out the door on LINK.

I called the Link Card Fraud Hot line over 30 times, each time was requested to leave a voicemail message.After the 30th call, I received a message that the mailbox was full.I then called the A G's Office, left several messegs and never a reply.Last ditch effort was snail mail to AG's office.No response .I suspended my case and documented all my attemptsTo report the Link Card Fraud.

There going easy on this guy, cause there is more people involved. For starters the link card agency is part of the scheme, next the uncles and family of this guy whom are in government office maybe Dorothy brown, and last but not least the politicians whom are behind this. If they can steal a million what's ten more. The Feds should pick this case up 911 pronto.

The burden of a socialist benefit nation. The U.K. has been battling this curse for decades. That's why the UKip party is finally gaining some steam -- they want to restrict immigration to reduce the benefit abusers flocking into England and Scotland. Somalis and Pakistanis are some of the worst. Also, well-to-do Nigerian women find that it's cheaper and much safer to buy plane tickets to London right around the time that they're due to give birth -- deliver their babies in sanitary and modern London hospitals, and then, of course, skip the bill and head home. And I guess pointing this out makes me raciss.

The LINK card system if full of fraud with millions upon millions stolen funds from the taxpayer. Go after the store owners, especially those shit Arab stores on the south and west side. The hundreds of thousands they collect are funneled to terrorism. Cut the amount of link payments per family. just ,buy staples from certain certified stores who accept the card, cut out the pop and junk food. Kids get free breakfast and lunches at school, cut the link payments to these freeloaders.

Saw the 60 Minutes segment as well bout SS fraud. That lady the above poster was talking about told Pelly all that info as if she was a victim. I believe she said something like "I'm a mother, wife, grandmother, and now a felon. I wanted to yell thru the TV at Pelly to call her out on the 30 years of FRAUD. Scott Pelly kinda let her play the victim. Her answer was that she didn't know. I could see ignorance as an excuse for mayB a month or two, but 30 years?Sister, PLEASE

Clearly Mr. Ghosheh votes democrat. Were he a republican voter, possibly even a Tea Party member, he would have been audited thoroughly during the past six years so that even his legitimately earned income would be confiscated to redistribute to more worthy beneficiaries. This is no different than the woman I overheard complaining about how her Medicaid wouldn't cover immunizations she needed for an OVERSEAS vacation. She had zero - zip - not one shred of shame or embarrassment, nor did she see the irony in being able to afford to travel overseas and still taking government handouts. It's time for the makers to start stealing from the system and get THEIR fair share too, I guess.

The burden of a socialist benefit nation. The U.K. has been battling this curse for decades. That's why the UKip party is finally gaining some steam -- they want to restrict immigration to reduce the benefit abusers flocking into England and Scotland. Somalis and Pakistanis are some of the worst. Also, well-to-do Nigerian women find that it's cheaper and much safer to buy plane tickets to London right around the time that they're due to give birth -- deliver their babies in sanitary and modern London hospitals, and then, of course, skip the bill and head home. And I guess pointing this out makes me raciss.

3/17/2015 03:52:00 PM

People have been doing that here for decades. They are called "Anchor Babies" and we then pay them benefits. It's not just the Mexicans. It's a huge business for China and it's costing us billions. This is a law we need to repeal.

This guy was always a bad person. All my life I knew that he was a mean and greedy man but I never thought it would go this far. I guess you never really know people. Not to mention how much of an asshole he was sleeping with different women God knows how many times a week. It's not where he's from or what religion(if he even believes in God) he is though I blame his parents who are even larger pigs than he is. God I hate this man.